Download Office 2016 from Microsoft without a product key

Let’s say you want to download the trial version of Office 2016 from Microsoft but you don’t have a product key. You are asked to go to the Office website, log in and enter your product key to be able to get the application that downloads and installs Office for you. You don’t really need to do that; you can install a trial version of Office 2016 using the deployment tool without logging in or entering a product key at all. Here’s how.

First, download and run the deployment tool from Microsoft. You will be asked to choose a folder to extract some files to. I recommend you create a new folder in your desktop and extract the files there.

When you are done, open that folder. You will find two files there, an application and an xml file. Open the configuration.xml file with any text editor (Notepad is okay) and you will find this: